, 1887-10-06

contract for tic location at pcr;
Townsend II tie worlds people
Were uusriutri n condemnation OF
the L1k- Superior ana fuErt Sound
land I.Hg. for removing ia" terminus
OF the Eo-;ael., tGrlac from 0'gus-
Eia . lucoy- 50 fr" Years a-,n, they
are 40 less emphatic L CpE-uTr g.
Tie controlling Influence in the con
ference that Impr.Ivd tuat body tO
stultify itself 10y Ignoring acts Il it.
agcut, that would have been rucUg-
uizrd hy men uf ordinary business
pgoIity. despite technical l0op-holcs
and the promise ofPecuniary reward.
We say this III q spirit Of kindness,
and without partiality for any point
/ OF location.
| Mr.. LeSonrd has registered a SOL
emn vow before high heaven to mover,
nerer monkey with an editor again
without first ascertaining that lie Is
not loaded.
The great international yacht race
that took place last week was a mat
ter OF interest the world over. A. IN
advertisement OF tue skill and ability
Of Americ.n ship builders, II is worth
untold wealth. Last year ii was claim
ed by the Engish thai they were boat
Oh by those ~hlawstel Yankees" SIM
ply becauseIhay dill not send their
fastesJ yacht to compete Tins year,
however, th- Thistle was acknowledged
to DO the champion OF English waters.
She has been fairly beaten, and in
two races. Hereafter, or yachlsman
will carry the broom ut their mast
head with impunity at !east until
something more swift III the line of
water craft can be prodncad by our
British friends.
Somehow the Tacoma Ledger has
not yet called for that specific infor-
nation on University matters. Some
how Rev. LeSourd las not yet an
swered those pertinent and import
ant questions, either. He could do
so If he were an innocent man. Ii
also remains fact that not one of
| those ministers who voted to reject
the Port Townsend bonus had ever
visited OF personally Inspected tie
lands; not one Of them. 1t also re-
mains fact that six of them were
not members of the conference when
the contract was made, ana hence
We're not parties to it. 4 little ex-
plantation on these points would be
the proper thing. Rev. LeSourd's
i:tea OF pure literature" seems 90 be
ignoring or combining dishonorable
action.
TIE Ledger publishes Rev. Le-
Sourd's note to this paper, but of
course fails to publish our questions
to that gentleman. 1t is easy enough
to talk in d general way about "5lan-
dering" people: but if some OF the
''slandered" ones woRld or could
make even partial showing in Their
own behalf it would place them in 9
much better light before the public.
The ARGUS has offered them space,
and has propounded to one of them
at least series of questions which, if
ho were the prosecuted saint he would
like to have folks believe. would af-
ford him d splendid opportunity to
vindicate himself in public estima-
ton. He has not yet responded, and
We have not the remotest idea that
he will-simply because he cannot
make showing creditable to himself
without getting caught. The ARGUS
Is by 10 means the only paper that
has passed Judgment on this dis
graceful action of the conference.
Aside from the Tacoma papers (wkch
of course have an interest to serve)
the expression has boon very general
and very positive, and has all been
one way-modified and varied mere
ly in form or degree of condemua-
ton. Public sentiment generally set
ties down to a just verdict. In this
case there is no mistaking public
Isentiment. If the Church does not
rectify tho blunder it will be last
ing disgrace to her and an insnr-
mountable obstacle to her usefulness.
The conference administered a re-
buke TO lay members of the Church
that amounted to little less than open
insuit-and since then we learn that
one OF the principal parties 10 the in
fanny defended himself publicly by
saying that the laymen had no busi-
ness with this matter. Just how tho
Church proposes to carry on its work
without the laymen is not explained f;
and Just why Iaymen have nothing
10 say in great enterprise for which
they have to furnish the coin is net
explained either. There seems to
have been a sort of feeling that the
Port Townsend matter would "blow
over" in little while-but it don't
propose 10 blow over" worth a cent.
A word to our railroad company:
The faster they push their enterprise
the more successful it will lie in se-
curing aid from property owners
along the proposed line of the read
Ii that coal mine pans out" it will
canse small town to spring up at
Noodman's on Discovery Bay.
The Pert Townsend Southern"